Tips on creating a successful portfolio
March 31st, 2009
Smashingmagazine had a really nice article on their website showing best practices when creating a portfolio. Check their article.
Archive
Archive for March, 2009
New printer: HP Color LaserJet CM1312NFI
March 29th, 2009
I was looking for a color laser printer, with scanner and capable of network printing. Since I am very pleased with HP for my printers (My first HP was a HP Deskjet 520), I searched for a HP printer which fullfilled my needs…
HP Color LaserJet CM1312nfi
How to develop film using coffee and vitamin C
March 27th, 2009
Print documents as booklets
March 25th, 2009
A friend of mine showed me CocoaBooklet, which is a free tool for OSX which makes it possible to print everything as a booklet.
Samsung’s NC310 netbook
March 23rd, 2009
Today akihabaranews.com posted information about the Samsung NC10 successor: The Samsung NC310. The website claims the NC310 can work 11 hours with an enhanced battery. I am very curious if this battery lifetime can be achieved in real-life.
photo (c) akihabaranews.com
WordPress anti spam in comments plugin
March 21st, 2009
Michiel had a very nice comment on my blog. If you post a comment and make an error in the captcha the whole comment is deleted and you can type the thing all over again.
Spam
Display rotation menu for OSX
March 19th, 2009
The monitor I am working on is a Samsung 244T. This monitor has the capability of rotating from landscape to portrait mode. OSX supports rotating the screen, but to do so you need to go trough a lot of menus.
Display Rotation menu icon
Hotmail / Livemail pop3 settings
March 17th, 2009
From now on both hotmail and Windows live mail support pop3 for retreiving your mail. The settings are as follows:
- Incoming
- pop3.live.com
- use SSL port 995
- Outgoing
- smtp.live.com
- use SSL port 25
- NOTE: use your full id, that is for example johndo@live.com or johndo@hotmail.com
my new mail count after adding hotmail to Mail
Setup xs4all sip account on a Nokia E51
March 15th, 2009
I just got telephony from xs4all and this is the nice thing: they provide sip access to their phone system. It was a little bit trial and error but now I can use my Nokia E51 using their phone system. This post describes the correct settings.
Nokia E51
Brand new guitar capo
March 13th, 2009
This week I received my brand new guitar capo. I ordered it at an eBay shop for a couple of dollars. The capo looks very solid and did its job great! I ordered the capo in order to play songs like Amy Macdonald’s Borrowland Ballroom (click for tab). When I played the song without capo I heard something was not quite right about the sound. Then I started reading the whole tab and saw a capo was needed. Now I can play the nice Amy sound with my capo 
my capo